“…those who follow crooked paths will be exposed.” (The Bible, Proverbs)

FOUNDING FATHERS PERSPECTIVE

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is in their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.” (Thomas Jefferson)

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” (Martin Luther King Jr., promulgator of the Founders’ principles)

FACTS

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” (John Adams)

◊ Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an activist movement that uses social media, protests, and rallies to create social change. They have 37 chapters in the US and 1 in Canada.Black Lives Matter. “Locate a chapter”

◊ BLM was founded in 2012 by three Black women who said that BLM was a “call to action for Black people … as a response to the anti-Black racism that permeates (U.S.) society.” BLM believes that in the U.S. “… black lives are intentionally and systematically targeted for demise … by police and vigilantes.”Blacklivesmatter.com

◊ BLM nationally protests what they claim are the unjust killing of many other Black men by police. Four well-known BLM protests were in response to the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray.

◊ BLM is “committed to disrupting/dismantling the Western nuclear family” and replacing it with “Black Villages” where fathers would not be necessary or even desired. They declare themselves to be “queer affirming”, and seek to “free themselves from the tight grip of heterosexuality.”

The BLM website posts the following statement: “Black Lives Matter advocates for dignity, justice, and respect.” BLM’s record conclusively proves the total falsity of this claim. Since its inception, BLM has promoted racial discrimination, hatred, gross public disrespect, and revenge. Their acknowledged heroes are individuals who have killed police officers. No matter how overwhelming the evidence of guilt, whenever a Black person is convicted of a crime, BLM claims injustice. They advocate for anarchy, and against strong, traditional Black families. BLM’s agenda is self-serving. Its platform is a senseless philosophical jumble of values they do not follow. BLM actively harms America’s efforts to maintain racial harmony. Only those individuals with similar agendas would find any justification for supporting them.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION

The facts that expose BLM need to be disseminated as widely as possible. Political leaders who are aware of BLM’s background, and support or fail to censure their activities, should be publicly condemned.